Oldfield, old field, old fields or oldfields may refer to:

Old fields

Old field (ecology) Old field is a term used in ecology to describe lands formerly cultivated or grazed but later abandoned. The dominant flora include perennial grasses, Ericaceae, heaths and herbaceous plants. Old fields are canonically defined as an intermediate st ...

, land previously cultivated but now abandoned *Old field or

Indian old field Indian Old Field, or simply Old Field, was a common term used in Colonial American times and up until the early nineteenth century United States, by American explorers, surveyors, cartographers and settlers, in reference to land formerly cleared a ...

, abandoned Native American cultivated fields

Places

England

Oldfields Ground Oldfields Ground is a cricket ground in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1905, when Staffordshire played Bedfordshire in the grounds first Minor Counties Championship match. The county played a further Mi ...

, a former cricket ground in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire * Oldfield, West Yorkshire, a hamlet

United States

* Oldfield, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Old Field, New York Old Field is a village located in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 918 at the 2010 census. History The village incorporated in 1927. The Old Field Point Light located o ...

, a village * Oldfields, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Old Fields, West Virginia Old Fields is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in northern Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Old Fields has also been known throughout its history as In ...

, an unincorporated community * Oldfields, a house and estate forming part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana

Other countries

* Oldfield, Ontario, Canada, a rural community *

Oldfield River The Oldfield River is an ephemeral river in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia that rises inland from the South Coast at the edge of the Yilgarn plateau. The river starts at above sea level then flows in a south easterly d ...

, a river in Western Australia

People

Oldfield (name) Oldfield is a surname, and occasionally a given name. Given name *Oldfield Thomas, British zoologist Surname *Anne Oldfield, 18th century English actress * Audrey Oldfield, Australian children's writer and historian * Augustus Frederick Oldfield, ...

, list of people called Oldfield

Wildlife

Oldfieldia ''Oldfieldia'' is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals ...

, a plant genus in the family

Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 speciesStephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ in 25 genera. These are subtropical to Tropics, ...

* Oldfieldioideae, a former subfamily of

Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae (), the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of Euphorbia, the type genus of the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', ar ...

now regarded as a family, called

* Oldfield clover or hare's-foot clover, ''

Trifolium arvense ''Trifolium arvense'', commonly known as the hare's-foot clover, rabbitfoot clover, stone clover or oldfield clover, is a flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. This species of clover is native to most of Europe, excluding the Arctic zone, ...

'' *

Oldfield mouse The oldfield mouse, oldfield deermouse or beach mouse (''Peromyscus polionotus'') is a nocturnal species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus ''Peromyscus'', a closely related group of New World rats and mice, New Wor ...

or beach mouse (''Peromyscus polionotus''), a North American species of rodent in the family

Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species, it is either the largest or second-largest family ...

* Oldfield mouse, any of the South American species of rodent in the genus ''

Thomasomys ''Thomasomys'' is a genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae, named after British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. Nuclear DNA sequence analysis has indicated that it is a sister taxon to '' Rhagomys''. It contains the following species: * Anderson's ...

'' in the family Cricetidae * Old-field toadflax, ''

Nuttallanthus canadensis ''Nuttallanthus canadensis'', the blue toadflax, Canada toadflax, or old-field toadflax, is a species of '' Nuttallanthus'' in the family Plantaginaceae, native to eastern North America from Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to Texas and Flor ...

Schools

Oldfield Boys' School Beechen Cliff School is a boys' secondary school in Bath, Somerset, England, with about 1,150 pupils. Its earliest predecessor school was founded in 1896. There are around 930 boys in years 7 to 11 and a co-educational sixth form of 402 pupils. ...

, former boys' secondary school in Bath, England *

Oldfield School Oldfield School is a secondary school, with a sixth form, in Newbridge, Bath, Newbridge, Bath, Somerset, Bath, England. Since February 2011, the school has had Academy (English school), academy status, meaning that it operates outside the contro ...

, coeducational secondary school in Bath, England * Oldfields School, girls' boarding school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States

Other

* 5656 Oldfield, an asteroid {{disambiguation, geo